My Sin (1931) DVD-R

Starring Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Harry Davenport, Scott Kolk,
Anne Sutherland
Directed by George Abbott

Print: black/white
Runtime: 80 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

In all three of her 1931-32 movie vehicles, Tallulah Bankhead played
variations of that familiar soap opera standby, the Fallen Woman. My Sin
casts Bankhead as a college-educated nightclub entertainer named
Carlotta, working in a seedy dive in Panama. Tormented by her
blackmailing husband, she shoots and kills the bounder then finds that
no self-respecting attorney will take her case. Fortunately for her,
alcoholic lawyer Dick Grady (Fredric March) has no respect for himself,
and it is he who agrees to defend her in court. Acquitted of murder,
Carlotta heads to New York to start life anew, only to have her unsavory
past catch up with her again. Once more, however, she is rescued by
Grady, who has sworn off booze and metamorphosed into a pillar of
society.